Are you a professional or a beginner in Adobe Illustrator? Well, never mind! To make progress at least in something you should read, learn and practice, practice and again practice. And if you are ready to start learning new techniques, you’ll need some fresh tutorial to keep to. To help you with that we’ve gathered here a list of step-by-step tutorials that might come of a great interest to you, in case if you’re searching for new methods of enhancing your personal skills and to make your work with this program more efficient and easy.

AS many of you know, a good and nicely done logo can speak for itself. It can make any website be not of the common type, attracting more and more new visitors and catching their attention. To create a really great logo, one should be aware of the latest trends and requirements in the modern design world and to help you with that we have decided to come up with 60 Creative Logos for Inspiration.

Originally “Transformers” is a series of toys of the American company “Hasbro” and Japanese company “Takara”. When they became very popular, the work on animation tv series and comics began. It’s an incredibly popular entertainment franchise that with time developed from a toy line into comic books, animation, video games and films.
The well-known “Generation 1” includes both the animated TV series The Transformers and the comic book series, which are further divided into Japanese and British spin-offs, accordingly. Later on there were also sequels, such as the Generation 2 comic book and Beast Wars TV series, which also became its own mini-universe.

The first live-action film about Transformers was released in 2007, with a sequel in 2009, a second sequel in 2011, and a third sequel is expected in 2014. In Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon the newest technologies were used in the area of the computer graphics that allowed obtaining unprecedented realism and epic atmosphere.

Today we are glad to present to your attention a collection called Transformers Universe: Showcase of Stunning Artworks, which was created by the creative fans of Transformers. Enjoy it and share your impressions!

Originally “Transformers” is a series of toys of the American company “Hasbro” and Japanese company “Takara”. When they became very popular, the work on animation tv series and comics began. It’s an incredibly popular entertainment franchise that with time developed from a toy line into comic books, animation, video games and films.
The well-known “Generation 1” includes both the animated TV series The Transformers and the comic book series, which are further divided into Japanese and British spin-offs, accordingly. Later on there were also sequels, such as the Generation 2 comic book and Beast Wars TV series, which also became its own mini-universe.

The first live-action film about Transformers was released in 2007, with a sequel in 2009, a second sequel in 2011, and a third sequel is expected in 2014. In Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon the newest technologies were used in the area of the computer graphics that allowed obtaining unprecedented realism and epic atmosphere.

Today we are glad to present to your attention a collection called Transformers Universe: Showcase of Stunning Artworks, which was created by the creative fans of Transformers. Enjoy it and share your impressions!

Sebastian Feraut, also known as Niark1, created truly unique style in his works. Full of colors, surrealistic illustrations attract with the huge number of details. Psychedelic images of unknown monsters enlarge the scope of one’s fantasies. Chaos and order amazingly coexist together here. The showcase of this talented Parisian artist will surely inspire you.

Sebastian Feraut, also known as Niark1, created truly unique style in his works. Full of colors, surrealistic illustrations attract with the huge number of details. Psychedelic images of unknown monsters enlarge f the scope of one’s fantasies. Chaos and order amazingly coexist together here. The showcase of this talented Parisian artist will surely inspire you.

Steve Simpson has been creating award winning illustration for major ad & design companies for the last 20 years. His characters have appeared on everything from postage stamps to billboards, snack packaging to chilli bottles. In recent years he’s been illustrating children’s books both at home and in the US. Most recently Steve picked up a bell at The Institute of Creative Advertising & Design (ICAD) awards for his Inferno Chilli label design. Steve also won gold in the Association of Illustrators (UK) Images 32 for his Pure Pie branding and has regularly had work accepted for The Society of Illustrators (NY), 3×3 Mag awards, Applied Arts, Communication Arts & American Illustration.

Look through the collection below and enjoy the mastery of this talented and creative artist!

Swiss style or as it’s called international typographic style was developed in Switzerland in 1959s. Readability, cleanliness and objectivity are the keys of this tendency in design. Swiss style distinguishes in asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif and images instead of graphic illustrations.

Previously we posted Swiss Style Posters by Mike Joyce. Today we want to present the most interesting works of contemporary designers made in good Swiss style.

As Internet broadband connections get faster, our internal waiting clocks run on shorter and shorter minutes. But there are times when we still have to be patient, and a nice toolbar design may do wonders to let us know how long we have to wait.

We have gathered the most interesting samples for you that characterize the modern tendencies in progress bar designs.

After the unbelievable popularity of the great Peter Jackson’s fantasy film trilogy The Lord of the Rings producers and developers of the series decided to come up with the Hobbit, and create the movie on the story that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote as a preface to the main adventure. It was written in 1937 as a children’s fantasy novel and is considered as the best juvenile fiction. The main characters are presented with Bilbo Baggins, Smaug, Thorin Oakenshield and of course Gandalf. Inspired by the new coming movie The Hobbit we have decided to look through the pictures that great fans of this writer and series dedicated to their most preferred characters. Enjoy the collection of fine arts!

Film noir is French expression for “black film”. It is a film term which characterizes a certain cinematic period that took place from the early 1940s and lasted something about to the late 1950s. This period in movie industry reflects the pessimism and cynical attitudes of American society during the WWII and early years of the Cold War. As a rule it was a period of stylish Hollywood crime dramas, which contained a criminal plot, gloomy atmosphere of cynical fatalism and pessimism, elimination of the edge between a hero and antihero, relative realism of action and dark illumination of the scene, usually night. Later on, film noir was incarnated in the films of various well-known directors and a fashion for noir films periodically came back to life. Inspired by the mysterious atmosphere of noir films, we’ve decided to share with you a collection of dark digital artworks!

In this post we’ve gathered 50 New And Free Pattern Sets you can always download and use wherever you like. Look it through up to the end and you’ll find a lot of of creative, interesting and simply amazing patterns of different geometric shapes, various colours and textures. It doesn’t matter whether you are going to use some of these as a background for your web site or just want to try them for any of your design projects, you’ll definitely find these patterns very useful. They are available in various formats: .eps, .ai, .png, .pat, .psd and .jpg, so all you need is to download the one you like the most.

There are probably very few people on our planet that haven’t heard of The Walt Disney Company! And the one, who didn’t hear about it, probably saw some of their cartoon motion films. It was originated on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before expanding their borders to live-action film production, television, and travel.
Almost all the cartoons and characters we do remember from our childhood were created by the professionals who work for it. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, The Lion King, Bambi, Ariel and a lot of other fictional characters will forever remain in our childish dreams and memories. Today we invite you to the wonderful world of fairytales and adventures, in order you could feel yourself a kid again.

There are probably very few people on our planet that haven’t heard of The Walt Disney Company! And the one, who didn’t hear about it, probably saw some of their cartoon motion films. It was originated on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before expanding their borders to live-action film production, television, and travel.
Almost all the cartoons and characters we do remember from our childhood were created by the professionals who work for it. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, The Lion King, Bambi, Ariel and a lot of other fictional characters will forever remain in our childish dreams and memories. Today we invite you to the wonderful world of fairytales and adventures, in order you could feel yourself a kid again.

Artists and designers usually try to create very attractive and colorful movie posters, so that the audience wouldn’t be able to look away for several seconds or sometimes even minutes. But quite often very loaded posters are not always making that impressive effect and here minimalistic posters’ design comes to the challenge! Minimalism is an art of showing much with little and this approach sometimes gives a lot more impressions. All you need is to use as few shapes as possible and make sure you apply some symbolic details, because the last one can make a really strong effect. To give you some ideas, we’ve gathered a nice collection of Minimalist Movie Posters.

Previously, we had a post which covered the theme of art deco and today we are going to continue this topic with the selection of inspirational art deco posters and illustrations. For those, who are not acquainted with this style – art deco is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and spread all over the world throughout the 1930s. This unusual style imbibed influences from many different directions of the early twentieth century, including neoclassical, constructivism, cubism, modernism and futurism and also got some inspiration from ancient Egyptian and Aztec forms. So, look through the collection that we present to your attention to see the examples of this artistic style.